In Part One of this program, together with Saeed Peyvandi, a sociologist and professor at the University of Lorraine, we go to the heart of this structure to see how the education system in Iran—from textbooks to school management—has become a tool for reproducing power and inequality.
In this conversation, we examine:
- How educational discrimination under the Supreme Leader has manifested, and how education in Iran has shifted from a public right to a mechanism of ideological and structural control.
- How textbooks, through continuous rewriting, reinforce official religious narratives and gender stereotypes, shaping the minds of a generation within the framework of power from the very beginning.
- How official religion, not merely as a subject but as a cornerstone of educational policy, limits freedom of thought and equal opportunities, turning schools into ideological strongholds.
- We also address the teacher crisis and the entry of clerics into the education system.
What does this mean for the quality of education, the future of students, and Iran’s path of development?
The Ravi–Ham-Avā podcast series aims to expand the national discourse around universal values, democracy, the separation of religion and state, human rights, gender equality, and the preservation of Iran’s territorial integrity.
Within such a framework, we can move along the path of collective wisdom toward a free and dignified Iran—for all Iranians, regardless of belief, thought, gender, ethnicity, or background.
“Government of the people, by the people, and for the people.”